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California scrub jay

Aphelocoma californica · Corvidae

California scrub jay
Photo: Becky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California, CC BY 2.0

The California scrub jay is a species of scrub jay native to western North America. It ranges from southern British Columbia throughout California and western Nevada near Reno to west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with Woodhouse's scrub jay and collectively called the western scrub jay.

Where the California scrub jay lives

Recorded in United States of America (North America).

Most records fall in California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.

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Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 2,923,828 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.